Re: Firefox and Video DRM

[Bret Busby <bret@busby.net>]

On 31/1/25 18:19, George at Clug wrote:
> On Friday, 31-01-2025 at 20:41 Henrik Ahlgren wrote:
> > On Fri, 2025-01-31 at 19:24 +1100, George at Clug wrote:
> > > I have two answers (which might not be good answers, if so someone may be able to correct me)
> > >
> > > 1) For some time now yt-dlp has been unable to download videos which I wanted to download.
> >
> > If you're on Debian Stable, please be aware that the version of yt-dlp
> > (2023.03.04-1) is really ancient and not feasible with YouTube as of today.
> > You need to install more recent version from bookworm-backports and keep it
> > up-to-date.
>
> Thank you for that info.
>
> # apt -t bookworm-backports install yt-dlp youtubedl-gui
>
> And now I can successfully download videos from YouTube, either from command line or GUI.

yt-dlp --version
2025.01.15

What does yours show?

(also, I note, for me to try next time, --write-auto-subs)


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